.:ROBOTIX:.

I wrote it long ago...after Kshitij in Feb.. Just wanted it to be on my blog so posted it..

.:ROBOTIX:. ---This name no longer needs an introduction not even all over India leave alone KGP. Ya, reading ritwik's blog inspired me to write something.
Just a gap of one year and we have our participation doubled; 546 teams was a reality which never was dreamed of. When we first sat down to estimate the "worst case scenario"- the term Choubey introduced to us, we had ourselves ceasing at a "meagre"(now so it seems) sum of 386 teams. As far as i remember,we expected a maximum of 150 teams in LR and SC each , 30-40 in RTI, Approximately 20 in GN and 50 total in coding events. And it all crossed that mark as peacefully as it could. We just panicked at this number and joked that we would have turned psychos if this number turned true. Bhaddo and Apurva even betted at a total of near 300; ain't i right???
But as the reality unfolds its more than true that we have all managed an event bigger than whatever we could have imagined in our wildest dreams--as one of my teachers often remarked "wild imaginations": i feel this phrase rightly fits in here. And yet we managed it with all professionalism and perfection as we could. kudos to all first years!! You guys really did a good job. And to the rest i dont think myself able enough to remark on their work. Its really a great time to for all of us; a time to reflect, a time to sit together and enjoy odd moments of those four days- the way we did that night; to think of those sleepless nights when i slept a little late the next morning and then rushed to the arena only to find everyone sleeping yet; to remember all sorts of problems the participants came up with; arguments and chaoses at last moment about 1 mm deviation; when we sometimes made strict rules and then ourselves made it flexible to the largest extent we could; that feel of hunger lingering throughout but no food could be gobbled through; spending the day with a folder and a pen in hand, a stopwatch and a sleepy yet alert vision. A night rather an early morning nap on chairs joined in Maitrayee; that dinner treat in our new lab--all was great enough to linger in memories for ever. Its all gone; yet more is there to come.
We will miss you people- Choubey, Sabya, Golu. As i put in that day its hard to imagine ROBOTIX without you all. Yet we will try to make you even prouder next time.
Three cheers to .:ROBOTIX:.!!!
And cheers to the whole team!!!